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STROMATEID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stromateid mean?
• STROMATEID (noun)
The noun STROMATEID has 1 sense:
1. small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Familiarity information: STROMATEID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
butterfish; stromateid; stromateid fish
Hypernyms ("stromateid" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Meronyms (parts of "stromateid"):
butterfish (any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stromateid"):
dollarfish; Poronotus triacanthus (small food fish of Atlantic coast)
California pompano; palometa; Palometa simillima (smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies)
harvestfish; Paprilus alepidotus (butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina)
driftfish (small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide)
driftfish (larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico)
barrelfish; black rudderfish; Hyperglyphe perciformis (blackish fish of New England waters)
Holonyms ("stromateid" is a member of...):
family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)
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